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Be a messy commute, it's going to be a messy ride if you're going by car. as far as air goes, you're going to see delays today. and the national outlook, what it looks like right now, we're talking about creeping close to 2,000 delays at this hour. again, it's still pretty early. so all the boards like here at reagan, they look good. i'm seeing many flights are on time. however, you see cancellations at the obvious places like mississippi, where those deadly tornadoes touched down yesterday. so we see cancellations there. we're also seeing some cancellations, just a sprinkling, maine and india...

Learning what will happen and how will we move forward and get flight tracking immediately and what's the quickest way to do it that airlines will do it that's affordable. there's 11,000 airplanes with equipment on them but now immarsat says they can use this equipment. they expect by the end of the year to have flight tracking on all 11,000 aircraft. >> that's something we talked about with you. all aviation experts have talked about the need to this and fact it's almost onboard. it couldn't come soon enough. >> it couldn't come soon enough and it's important that they are onboard with this. ...

According to many of the flight tracking websites, there are roughly more than 500 delays. not all of them necessarily having to do with weather. these are the delays that we're seeing now in the hundreds. as far as airports go, we're seeing the most delays at charlotte's airport. also in philadelphia. we're seeing delays at o'hare as well as a few in atlanta as well. as far as cancellations go, we're seeing some in boston as well as newark and laguardia in new york. for more on what's happening in new york, let's send it over to margaret conley. >> reporter: thanks. >> here at laguardia there...

Find out more information there. we will have much more on that throughout the show. first we have this fox news alert for you this morning. >> all right. so this is where we begin a blind chinese activist jong cheng leaving china on a plane for the u.s. peter does is has the details what's the update, pete? >> julia united airlines is in the air with chen, his wife and their two kids on board reportedly in business class but surrounded by heavy security and based on our own online flight tracking it should touch down in the garden state in the 6:00 p.m. eastern hour now and the u.s. state dep...

>> he ruled out a vice presidential slot on the national ticket, but he did not seem to rule out a possible run in the future. maybe in 2016. shepherd? >> shep: eric, trenton, new jersey. let's get to the republicans who are running. new poll shows one candidate skyrocketing and a front runner in free fall. a live update coming up from america's election headquarters. fox urgent, amanda knox is minutes away from setting foot on american soil for the first time in about four years. she's heading home to seattle, just one day after a court in italy cleared her of murdering her roommate. just one...